1st lesson plan

Saagarika Rajan Babu

Week 2, Lesson 4
Year Level: 10
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Lesson Duration: 50

How does exercise and diet affect body systems?

Learning Outcomes
Students will learn the benefits that exercise and a healthy diet has on body
systems
Students will learn the negative effects that the lack of exercise and a healthy
diet has on body systems
Links to AUSVELS standards covered
AusVELS Strands, Domains and dimensions applicable to lesson:
Multi-cellular organisms rely on coordinated and interdependent internal systems to
respond to changes to their environment (ACSSU175).
Communicate scientific ideas and information for a particular purpose, including
constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language,
conventions and representations (ACSIS208).
Cross-curriculum priorities
o Sustainability
Cross-curriculum priorities
Sustainability
This priority will ensure that students learn sustainable pattern of healthy living for
overall maintenance of life on Earth.
Interdisciplinary Learning
o Listening, viewing, and responding
o Reasoning, processing, and inquiry
o Creativity
o Reflection, evaluation, and metacognition
o Health knowledge and promotion
o Managing personal learning
Higher order thinking
o Create
o Evaluate,
o Analyse
Setting
Science Lab (alternative setting)

Formative assessment
o Student participation in class discussions
o Student participation and discussion in group activity
o Students presentation of leaflet
Activity
Engage

Time
5 mins

Students will be introduced to topic and learning goals: To discuss how

exercise and diet affects body systems (positively and negatively).
Students prior knowledge on body systems will be elicited. Students will
be asked what they know about body systems, and what are the body
systems that they have learnt about in previous years.
Explain

10 min

Introduce body systems (digestive, respiratory, immune, muscular,

skeletal, lymphatic, endocrine, and central nervous system) and the role
of each body systems.
Introduce how exercise and diet affects each of the body system.
Introduce how regular exercise and a balanced diet has positive effects
on the various body systems.
Evaluate, Analyse

Explore
The class is divided into groups of three students each group.
Working in their groups, students will explore one of the following issues,
in relation to its effect on some body systems:
o Lack of exercise
o Too much exercise
o Under-eating
o Over-eating

15 mins

They will present their ideas in the form of a leaflet.

Create, Analyse

Elaborate
Students will conclude their group discussions and present their ideas to
the rest of the class.

10 mins

Evaluate, Analyse

Evaluate

7 mins

Teachers support student development through performance for

understanding.
Students are given feedback from the teacher if necessary.
Check for evidence of learning against learning goals.
Conclusion of Lesson
Students reflect on their own learning progress.
Students are asked to reflect on the learning process and mention what
they found difficult and what they would like to be reviewed in a future
lesson.

3 mins